Amazon EC2 Contracts in the South East

Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2)
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East requiring Amazon EC2 skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Amazon EC2 over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 150 189 184
Rank change year-on-year +39 -5 +46
Contract jobs citing Amazon EC2 9 16 38
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 0.30% 0.29% 0.65%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.99% 1.17% 2.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 13 24
10th Percentile £421 £405 £453
25th Percentile £444 £513 £469
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £530 £580
Median % change year-on-year +1.89% -8.62% +19.59%
75th Percentile £650 £600 £675
90th Percentile £680 £605 -
England median daily rate £575 £530 £625
% change year-on-year +8.49% -15.20% +8.70%

All Cloud Skills
South East

Amazon EC2 falls under the Cloud Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring cloud computing skills in the South East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 911 1,373 1,705
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 30.27% 24.70% 29.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 622 924 1,252
10th Percentile £280 £250 £252
25th Percentile £403 £406 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £501 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +0.10% -4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £600 £608 £635
90th Percentile £663 £675 £700
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 30 52 52
10th Percentile £16.78 £16.25 £17.72
25th Percentile £16.95 £17.80 £18.25
Median hourly rate £28.50 £22.36 £24.50
Median % change year-on-year +27.47% -8.74% +16.39%
75th Percentile £47.58 £52.38 £67.81
90th Percentile £75.05 £61.59 £75.00
England median hourly rate £25.50 £20.77 £32.30
% change year-on-year +22.77% -35.70% +53.81%

Amazon EC2
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Job postings citing Amazon EC2 as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for Amazon EC2 in the South East

Amazon EC2
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Amazon EC2 in the South East.

Daily rate trend for Amazon EC2 in the South East

Amazon EC2
Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Amazon EC2 in the South East over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Amazon EC2 in the South East

Amazon EC2
Contract Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Amazon EC2 within the South East region over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Thames Valley +40 4 £500 -11.11% 20
Berkshire +28 4 £500 -11.11% 11
Hampshire +26 3 £580 -2.11% 9
Surrey +18 2 £555 +46.05% 5
Amazon EC2
England

Amazon EC2
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 1 (11.11%) IIS
Business Applications
1 1 (11.11%) NEC Housing
Cloud Services
1 9 (100.00%) AWS
2 7 (77.78%) Amazon S3
3 6 (66.67%) Serverless
4 4 (44.44%) AWS Lambda
5 3 (33.33%) Amazon ECS
5 3 (33.33%) Amazon EKS
6 2 (22.22%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 2 (22.22%) Amazon SQS
6 2 (22.22%) AWS CloudFormation
6 2 (22.22%) PaaS
6 2 (22.22%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 1 (11.11%) AWS Elastic Beanstalk
7 1 (11.11%) AWS KMS
7 1 (11.11%) AWS Step Functions
7 1 (11.11%) GitHub
7 1 (11.11%) GitHub Actions
7 1 (11.11%) Route 53
7 1 (11.11%) SonarCloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (11.11%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (44.44%) Amazon RDS
2 3 (33.33%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (22.22%) DynamoDB
3 2 (22.22%) RDBMS
3 2 (22.22%) Relational Database
4 1 (11.11%) Amazon Aurora
Development Applications
1 4 (44.44%) Jenkins
2 3 (33.33%) JUnit
2 3 (33.33%) Mockito
3 2 (22.22%) GitLab
3 2 (22.22%) JMeter
4 1 (11.11%) Artifactory
4 1 (11.11%) Atlassian Bamboo
4 1 (11.11%) Bitbucket Server
4 1 (11.11%) DbUnit
4 1 (11.11%) Git
4 1 (11.11%) jMock
4 1 (11.11%) Maven
4 1 (11.11%) SonarQube
General
1 4 (44.44%) Public Sector
2 1 (11.11%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (11.11%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (55.56%) Developer
2 3 (33.33%) Java Developer
2 3 (33.33%) Senior
3 2 (22.22%) DevOps Engineer
3 2 (22.22%) Senior Developer
3 2 (22.22%) Senior Java Developer
4 1 (11.11%) AWS Developer
4 1 (11.11%) AWS Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) C# Developer
4 1 (11.11%) Cloud Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) Integration Developer
4 1 (11.11%) Lead
4 1 (11.11%) SC Cleared Java Developer
4 1 (11.11%) Senior DevOps
4 1 (11.11%) Senior DevOps Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (33.33%) ActiveMQ
1 3 (33.33%) Hibernate
1 3 (33.33%) REST
1 3 (33.33%) Spring
1 3 (33.33%) Spring Boot
1 3 (33.33%) Web Services
2 2 (22.22%) .NET
2 2 (22.22%) Apache Camel
2 2 (22.22%) HTML
2 2 (22.22%) jQuery
2 2 (22.22%) JSON
2 2 (22.22%) WireMock
2 2 (22.22%) XML
3 1 (11.11%) AngularJS
3 1 (11.11%) JPA
3 1 (11.11%) OAuth
3 1 (11.11%) PowerMock
3 1 (11.11%) RESTful
3 1 (11.11%) Spring Batch
3 1 (11.11%) Spring Integration
Miscellaneous
1 3 (33.33%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (11.11%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 1 (11.11%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (66.67%) CI/CD
2 4 (44.44%) DevOps
2 4 (44.44%) Microservices
3 3 (33.33%) Agile
3 3 (33.33%) BDD
3 3 (33.33%) Containerisation
3 3 (33.33%) TDD
4 2 (22.22%) Artificial Intelligence
4 2 (22.22%) Machine Learning
4 2 (22.22%) Problem-Solving
4 2 (22.22%) Process Management
4 2 (22.22%) SDLC
4 2 (22.22%) Software Delivery
4 2 (22.22%) Software Engineering
4 2 (22.22%) Workflow
5 1 (11.11%) API Development
5 1 (11.11%) DevSecOps
5 1 (11.11%) Infrastructure as Code
5 1 (11.11%) Infrastructure Management
5 1 (11.11%) Server Management
Programming Languages
1 5 (55.56%) Python
2 3 (33.33%) Java
2 3 (33.33%) Shell Script
3 2 (22.22%) JavaScript
4 1 (11.11%) C#
4 1 (11.11%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (22.22%) SC Cleared
1 2 (22.22%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 6 (66.67%) Docker
2 1 (11.11%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 5 (55.56%) Kubernetes
2 2 (22.22%) Kibana
2 2 (22.22%) Terraform
3 1 (11.11%) Ansible
3 1 (11.11%) Grafana
3 1 (11.11%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 2 (22.22%) Dynatrace
1 2 (22.22%) Splunk
2 1 (11.11%) Atlassian
2 1 (11.11%) Jaspersoft
2 1 (11.11%) NEC
2 1 (11.11%) New Relic